- Seven of Nine: When you separated me from the Collective, I was an unknown risk to your crew. Yet you kept me on board. You allowed me to evolve into an individual.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: You're a human being. He's a hologram.
- Seven of Nine: And you allowed that hologram to evolve as well, to exceed his original programming. And yet, now you choose to abandon him.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Objection noted. Good night.
- Seven of Nine: It is unsettling. You say that I am a human being, and yet I am also Borg - part of me not unlike your replicator. Not unlike the Doctor. Will you one day choose to abandon me as well? I have always looked to you as my example, my guide to humanity. Perhaps I've been mistaken.
- [last lines]
- The Doctor: [reading from 'La Vita Nuova'] "In that book, which is my memory, on the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, appear the words 'Here begins a new life.'"
- The Doctor: The primordial atom... burst, sending out its radiation, setting everything in motion. One particle collides with another, gases expand, planets contract, and before you know it, we've got starships and holodecks and chicken soup. In fact, you can't help but have starships and holodecks and chicken soup, because it was all determined twenty billion years ago!
- Tuvok: There is a certain logic to your logic.
- The Doctor: So, keeping busy down on Deck 11?
- Ensign Ahni Jetal: Too busy. Uh, we're modifying one of the shuttles, making it more maneuverable, and more... 'cool'.
- The Doctor: Hmm. I see you've been working with Mr. Paris. My condolences.
- [Janeway visits Seven in the cargo bay]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I'm having trouble... with the nature of individuality.
- Seven of Nine: You require a philosophical discussion?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: There's a time and a place for it. This is one of them.
- Seven of Nine: I am having trouble with the nature of individuality.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [laughs] There's a time and a place for philosophical discussion. Two in the morning in my quarters isn't one of them.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: After I freed you from the Collective... you were transformed. It's been a difficult process. Was it worth it?
- Seven of Nine: I had no choice.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: That's not what I asked you.
- Seven of Nine: If I could change what happened, erase what you did to me, would I? No.
- [Janeway orders a coffee from the replicator and tastes it]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Lukewarm. Now, I've told that replicator a dozen times about the temperature of my coffee. It just doesn't seem to wanna listen. Almost as if it's got a mind of its own. But it doesn't. A replicator operates through a series of electronic pathways that allow it to receive instructions and take appropriate action. And there you go, a cup of coffee; a bowl of soup, a plasma conduit, whatever we tell it to do. As difficult as it is to accept, the Doctor is more like that replicator than he is like us.
- Seven of Nine: He would disagree.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: I'm sure he would. But I can't let that change my decision.
- [the Doctor enters the bridge as Janeway is having a trivial discussion with the crew]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: If this is another house call, it'll have to wait. As you can see, I've got a mutiny on my hands.
- The Doctor: A mutiny? I suppose that's better than a conspiracy.
- Seven of Nine: Doctor?
- The Doctor: Tell her, Captain. Describe how you tampered with my program, how it was you all along.
- Tuvok: Perhaps you should accompany me to sickbay, Doctor.
- The Doctor: Et tu, Tuvok?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [of the Doctor] It's as though there's a battle being fought inside him. Between his original programming... and what he's become. Our solution was to end that battle. What if we were wrong?
- The Doctor: [while examining unexpected scarring on Harry Kim] No doubt about it, somebody performed neurosurgery. And that somebody... was me! These microlineal incisions are a dead giveaway; I developed that procedure myself!
- Harry Kim: I don't understand. I don't remember having an operation.
- The Doctor: I'm a little confused as well... because I don't remember performing it.
- [the Doctor is taking holographic pictures of Naomi Wildman]
- Naomi Wildman: Is it going to hurt?
- The Doctor: Of course not. A few photons never hurt anybody.
- The Doctor: Causality. Probability. For every action, there's an infinite number of reactions, and in each one of them I killed her! Or did I? Too many possibilities; too many pathways for my program to follow. Impossible to choose. Still, I... I can't live with the knowledge of what I've done, I can't.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: If one of my crew chose to put a phaser to his own head, should I let him?
- Seven of Nine: It would depend on the situation.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: It always depends on the situation, Seven.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead, Ensign Ahni Jetal. Her intelligence and her charm have made our long journey home seem not quite so long. As she continues on a journey of her own, we will keep her in our hearts... and in our memories.
- The Doctor: Throwing a little party, are we? Why, I attended a party just recently. A birthday party, for a very nice young woman. I made a decision there, too. Several of them, in fact. When I came through the door, do I turn right or do I turn left? As I recall, I decided on... the latter. Then, what should I see before me but the hors d'oeuvre tray, and another decision: do I take a canapé? Or refuse? Oh, that's an easy one - I'm a hologram, I don't eat.
- [chuckles sarcastically]
- Neelix: [to Security who just entered] Something's wrong with him.
- The Doctor: Don't you know it's rude to refer to somebody in the third person? You had a choice, Mr. Neelix - "Should I do something rude or not do something rude?"
- Tuvok: Doctor, we must return to sickbay.
- The Doctor: Why should I? What if I don't want to return to sickbay? What if I decide not to return to sickbay? No - I don't choose this. Leave me alone, LET ME GO! WHY DID SHE HAVE TO DIE? WHY DID I KILL HER? Why did I decide to kill her, why? Somebody tell me WHY...!
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: We gave him a soul, B'Elanna. Do we have the right to take it away now?
- B'Elanna Torres: We gave him personality subroutines. I'd hardly call that a soul.
- The Doctor: Oh, I'm all right. I'm a hologram. I don't get injured. I don't feel pain. I don't die - unlike some people I could tell you about.